how to access email from a shared outlook mailbox - powershell

Question

I need to get a the latest email from a shared outlook mailbox.
The shared inbox is eg. "Server Backup" and the email that i want to get is located
inbox\backup report\
Here is some code that I can access my Inbox but can't do it for a subfolder
$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$OutlookFolders = $Outlook.Session.Folders.Item(1).Folders
$OutlookInbox = $Outlook.session.GetDefaultFolder(6)
#read the latest email
$latestmail=$OutlookInbox.items | select -last 1

Answer 1

What you are after is to navigate a little further down.
$outlook = New-Object -Com Outlook.Application
$MAPI = $Outlook.GetNamespace("MAPI")
# Gets all mailboxes tied to the account
$Mailbox = $MAPI.Folders("SharedEmail#Company.com")
# Gets the Inbox folder
$Inbox = $mailbox.Folders("Inbox").Folders("backup report")
# Shows all emails from the Inbox
$contents = $Inbox.Items
$contents.Sort("ReceivedTime", $true)
$contents | select Subject, SenderName, CreationTime -First 1
EDIT: Since the above didn't work, try the below. It will search for the Inbox, then pipe that through to look for the Server Backup.
$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$OutlookFolders = $Outlook.Session.Folders.Item(1).Folders
(($OutlookFolders | Where-Object {$_.FolderPath -like "*Inbox*"}).Folders | `
Where-Object {$_.FolderPath -like "*Server Backup*"}).Items | `
select Subject, SenderName -Last 1

Answer 2

$outlook = New-Object -comobject outlook.application
$namespace = $outlook.application.GetNamespace("MAPI")
$folder = $namespace.GetDefaultFolder(6)
#goto the inbox\backup eport and select the latest email and place it in variable
#$newreport
$newreport = $namespace.Folders.Item("Server
Backup").Folders.Item('Inbox').Folders.item('backups').items | select -first 1

Answer 3

Add-Type -assembly "Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook"
Add-Type -assembly "System.Runtime.Interopservices"
$outlook = new-object -com outlook.application;
$namespace = application.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
$i = 1
$Sender = "abc#123.com" # email id
$Sender1 = "cde#123.com" # email id
$myRecipient = $namespace.CreateRecipient("Email Id") # Email id of the shared mail box
$inbox = $Namespace.GetSharedDefaultFolder($myRecipient ,[Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook.OlDefaultFolders]::olFolderInbox)
# Save email contect to a file in a location
$inbox.Items | ?{$_.SenderName -match $Sender -and $_.UnRead -eq "No" } | sort receivedtime -desc |
%{
$Filepath = "C:\temp\" + "email" + $filecount +".txt"
echo $_.body | Out-File -FilePath $Filepath #do stuff with body
$i = $i + 1
$filecount = " (" + $i + ")"
$_.Unread= $False #mark as read
}
# Save email attachment to a location
$inbox.Items | ?{$_.SenderName -match $Sender1 -and $_.UnRead -eq "No" } | sort receivedtime -desc |
%{
$Filepath = "C:\Temp\"
$_.attachments| ?{$_.saveasfile((Join-Path $filePath $_.FileName)) }
$_.Unread= $False #mark as read
}